Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2004 14:07:03 -0500 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> To: Andreas Davour <ante@update.uu.se> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Portupgrade problem Message-ID: <4076F457.7070103@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0404092042560.28354@Tempo.Update.UU.SE> References: <4076527F.1060902@users.sourceforge.net> <Pine.LNX.4.58.0404092042560.28354@Tempo.Update.UU.SE>
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Andreas Davour wrote: >Hi! > >I just decided to take a deep breath and cvsup some fresh ports. Now, >having done that I have run 'portupgrade -ar' and constantly found it to >stop some problems. > >Some ports have failed and been flagged as "configure error" or "install >error". Then I have tried to do a manual install of those ports and found >that a "make deinstall; make reinstall" have worked, just like the port >instructed me to do when it failed. I found it strange that portupgrade >didn't do that for me. > >Having done that I restarted portupgrade and it would proceed a bit before >stumbling to a halt again. > >Now I have reached the end of what I can fix manually, though. For some >reason portupgrade stubbornly complains that: > >"** Listing the failed packages (*:skipped / !:failed) > ! accessibility/atk (atk-1.4.1_1) (port directory error)" > >And it is correct in that there *is* no accessibility/atk port in my new >cvsup'ed ports tree. But why is it then telling me it needs it!? > >Can I get the atk ports from somewhere? Is it really needed? Why has it >dissapeared and why is it still mentioned as a dependency then? > >If anyone can shed some light on those matters, then I'm all ears. I can't >get a new version of Firefox to compile without atk so I'm very interested >in getting this to work. > >I have run 'pkgdb -F' and tried to remove the dependecy, but have not >succeeded. I'm not even sure it would be wise to do it... > >Help? > >/andreas > > > It is best to have a ports tree that contains almost everything except foreign languages when using BSD on a "workstation" or in a "desktop" environment --- there are so many dependancies. That said, you haven't told us how old your ports tree is; please look at /usr/ports/UPDATING and note that in the last few months there have been a couple of big issues, namely new versions of expat and gettext, IIRC, that affect many, many of the commonly used 3rd party sw packages/ports. Kevin Kinsey Daleco, S.P.
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